TV-Fox is a Mozilla plugin that lets you watch TV on Mozilla Firefox. This offers a wide variety of channels which enlists a handsome total of 2780 channels. All the channels are sorted according to category. This app installs a simple toolbar that enables you to search & select TV Channels of your choice.

There are some requirements that needs to be there for using these tool.

Install the toolbar here. Follow the necessary steps & restart the browser after the toolbar is installed.

Now that it is installed, you will see a toolbar at the top of your browser window looking somewhat like the screenshot below.

Now as you can see there are two TV icons to the right of the search box. The blue icon lets you search TV channels categorized as per country & the green icon lets you search TV channels categorized as per types(news, music, business etc).

NOTE : When connecting Flip4Mac may try to download the requested media instead of streaming it. This can cause the stream to stutter or loop back after a few minutes of play. To correct this:

Open the System Preferences utility.

Click Flip4Mac WMV to open the Flip4Mac preferences pane.

Open the Movie tab.

Select “Create streaming movies“.

Close System Preferences and restart any open browsers.
The next time you access a WMA or WMV stream, the plugin will display the streaming progress bar instead of the download bar, and the stream should play correctly.

5. For Unix users : TV-FOX streams are compatible with Unix using the Mplayer plugin on:
- Gentoo Linux 1.5.1
- FreeBSD 5.x
Download the plugin at – http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html
Mplayer tends to take longer to connect and buffer the stream than Windows Media player, so please be patient. To reduce the buffering time in Mplayer, update /etc/mplayerplug-in.conf by un-commenting the following line:
cachesize=256

SUPPORT : Contact the developer at http://toolbar.tv-fox.com/contact or send an e-mail to info@tv-fox.com.

This browser plugin is a bit heavy because it has a longer stream to catch. Sometimes it may cause in browser crash too( as reported by some users). But that is only a glitch which can be ignored keeping in mind about the versatility that this plugin offer. I hope that you will enjoy.

Author: Amit Banerjee

Amit has been writing for Techie Buzz since early 2009 and keeps a close eye on web apps, Google and all things Tech. He also writes at his own tech blog, Ampercent. Follow him on Twitter @ amit_banerjee